The history of flash fiction and its seedlings — short-shorts, drabble, micro-fiction and 55-words stories, as well as six-word memoir projects — has its roots in cave-drawings, but its branches in the internet. This craft workshop introduces flash fiction and its sub-categories as both an end in itself and as a way to better understand longer works. Attendees will read 1,000-word-or-fewer flashes and write their own.

Winona Winkler Wendth holds an Master of Fine Arts degree in literature and writing with an emphasis on creative nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She currently teaches writing, literature and other humanities courses at Quinsigamond Community College. Her work appears frequently in print and online literary journals and was listed in “Best American Essays/2010.” She writes both fiction and creative non-fiction, including “flash." She is finishing a collection of memoiristic essays and working on a short novel.